A Database of Human Hemoglobin Variants and Thalassemias

This is a relational database of information about hemoglobin variants and
mutations that cause thalassemia. The initial data came from
Syllabi
authored by Prof. Titus H.J. Huisman, Mrs. Marianne F.H. Carver,
Dr. Erol Baysal, and Prof. Georgi D. Efremov.
This information was converted to a database, and now new entries are added
and old entries are corrected by our curators, Dr. Henri Wajcman,
Dr. George Patrinos, Dr. Kamran Moradkhani, Joseph Borg, and Philippe Joly.
HbVar results from a collaboration among several investigators
at Penn State University (USA), INSERM Creteil (France), and Boston
University Medical Center (USA). Visit our query
page or summary page to see the types of information available.

To query on the database, click here.
To access summaries of the categories of the mutations, click here. Summaries of mutation categories
has counts of the results for common queries and buttons to link to them.

Publications:
Databases of Human Hemoglobin Variants and Other Resources at the
Globin Gene Server.
abstract
HbVar: A relational database of human hemoglobin variants and thalassemia mutations at the globin gene server:
abstract
and pdf
Improvements in the HbVar database of human hemoglobin variants and thalassemia
mutations for population and sequence variation studies.
pdf
HbVar Database of Human Hemoglobin Variants and Thalassemia Mutations:
2007 Update.
pdf
Systematic documentation and analysis of human genetic variation in hemoglobinopathies using the microattribution approach.
articlecovercommentary
supplementary
table (.xls) and
text (pdf)

Related sites:SeqView, a Sequence Visualisation Program
PhenCode - connects data from LSDBs (including HbVar) to genome browsers.
LOVD version of the Globin Gene Server
(this includes some genes not in HbVar)